has died at the age of 95. we will have a live report from the vatican in just a moment. plus, new year and even more legal troubles for the former president of the united states after decades of flying under the radar was 2022 the year that accountability finally caught up to donald trump? plus, the halls of congress will be crawling with election deniers in 2023. with a divided republican party set to take over the house, you can put democracy at the bottom of the gop agenda. good morning. it is saturday, december 31st, new years eve. i am mehdi hasan, sitting in for my friend ali velshi this morning. not only is today the last day of the year, it also marks the official end of the january 6th committee. it s a series of blockbuster public hearings dominated the news this year with its many revelations about donald trump s desperate and anti-democratic attempts to cling on to power. the committee repeatedly made the case that trump was culpable and liable for the insurrec
i am in the west. i m mehdi hassan filling in for my good friend ali velshi. i want to start this morning with a little bit of a quiz for you. do you know where and when he went to college? do you know if you attended college? do you know where he worked? do you know if you are jewish or not? of course, you know all the answers to those questions. for republican congressman elect george santos, there have been tough questions, we really tough questions. over the past couple of weeks, he s been caught lying in spectacular and fantastical fashion about each and every one of those things and more. george santos did not attend or graduate from any institute of higher education. he did not previously work for citigroup or goldman sachs. he did not found an animal rights charity. he tweeted that, quote, 9/11 claimed my mother s life. five months later he, tweeted a conflicting statement saying his mother died only five years ago in 2016. we don t know when exactly george santos s m
the gop battle for speaker. kevin mccarthy losing round after round for a third day, but is there progress in sight? violence erupting as the son of drug kingpin el chapo was arresteded in mexicoco. the deadly bomb cyclone slamming the west coast and now a new threat. the moving funeral at the vatican for pope benedict. royal bombshell. prince hararry alleging in his new b book he wasas physysically attttacked by brother r william. and hello, again, behind the scenes of neil diamond s surprise for fans after a health battle led him to retire from the stage. good times never seem so good good evening. we are getting our first detailed look at some of the evidence authorities say they have gathered against the suspect in the november murders of four idaho college students. just hours after his extradition from pennsylvania to idaho, bryan kohberger appearing in court where a probable cause affidavit was unsealed describing the dna trail allegedly linking a kni
for a third straight day, kevin mccarthy rejected now 11 times to lead the house of prepresentatives. and, royal rumble. prince harry accuses his brother, the future king of england, of shoving him, in a fight about meghan markle. tonight, the new revelations. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening to our viewers in the west and thank you for joining us on this busy thursday night. tonight, there is promising news from doctors about buffalo bills safety damar hamlin. they say today marks a really good turning point in his recovery. plus, that republican revolt in the house of representatives continues for the third straight day, as a small group of members hold kevin mccarthy s speakership hostage. we ll tell you about the real- life consequences of the stalemate in just a minute. but first, we have new details in the murders of the four university of idaho students. it was this affidavit relea
speaker votes stalemate. for a third straight day kevin mccarthy rejected now ten times to lead the house of representatives. and royal rumble, prince harry accuses his brother the future king offengland about shoving him in a fight about meghan markle. tonight the new revelations. o donnell: well, good evening and thank you for joining us on this busy thursday night. tonight, there is promising news from doctors about buffalo bills safety damar hamlin. they say today marks a good turning point in his recovery. plus the republican revolt in the house of representatives continues for the third straight day as a small group of members hold kevin mccarthy s speakership hostage. we re going to talk about the real-life consequences of the stalemate in judgment. but first, we have so many new details in the murders of the four universities of idaho students. it was this affidavit right here released today and it reveals how police identified the suspect 28-year-old bryan kohberge